Catherine S.

Catherine is a leadership coach with more than 25 years of successfully leading in Director and Executive positions, both in business and high-tech corporations, Catherine understands the pressures and environment that today’s leaders, whether leading themselves or others, are facing at work and at home. She is passionate about enabling and inspiring leaders to maximize the impact of their special gifts and to expand their leadership, influence, and achievement capacity. Catherine is committed to supporting clients as they grow and develop a deep self-awareness; grounded in who they are and how humans are designed, then helping them use that self-awareness as a basis for deeply understanding others.

Education & Certifications

BA., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
Certified Coach, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching
Certified DISC Coach
Certified MBTI Coach

Professional Experience

Learn about Catherine S. professional history.

VP, Mobile Technologies Inc
Senior Director, WW Technology and Communications Team (TAC) at FormFactor and Cascade Microtech
Director Operations – America’s FFO Customer Team, Advantest/Verigy VERIGY
America’s Applications Regional Director, Agilent Technologies

Functional Experience

All of our coaches are experienced in supporting a variety of business functions. This coach has personal experience in the following professional fields.

Engineering Marketing Sales

Industry Experience

While you may want to have some similarities with your coach you don’t want too much overlap. A coach’s job is to offer you fresh and new perspectives that you may not be exposed to in your current industry or function. Here are the industries the coach most commonly supports.

Consumer Products Education Logistics Technology

Coaching Expertise

Coaches have wide skill sets and we can’t list them all. Here are a few areas this coach specializes in helping support.

Communication Emotional Intelligence Management 101 Women in Leadership Work-Life-Integration

Primary Professionals Coached

Co-Founders at All Stages of Company Growth New Managers at High Growth Startups VPs at Established Companies Employees at Tech Companies Founders and C Level Executives Leaders in Multinational Companies International Client Base Experienced Managers in Leadership Positions Engineers Building Their Management Experience

Testimonials and Coaching Highlights

Catherine’s coaching style is empowering, motivating, and engaging. She works with leaders on their goals and challenges — expanding and refining their strengths and building on key growth areas. She is passionate about creating strong and trusting partnerships with her clients, allowing them to gain greater self-awareness, tap into their potential, understand/clarify their values, broaden their leadership skills, and ultimately change critical behaviors.

Past clients have described Catherine as energetic, no-nonsense, warm, active listener, direct, funny, intelligent, extremely insightful, kind but honest, and gentle but firm in holding accountability. They appreciate how she opens up options, illuminates pathways, and coaches her clients to see beyond the limitations of “this or that”. Catherine’s clients value her ability to co-create or offer: models, recipes, structures, and plans that take ideas/hopes/changes and set them up for realistic execution and lasting impact..